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Author	dstufft
Recipients	alex, benjamin.peterson, christian.heimes, dstufft, giampaolo.rodola, janssen, ncoghlan, pitrou, python-dev, smurfix
Date	2014-05-31.15:14:56
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Message-id	<1401549297.56.0.158750757671.issue21306@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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That's also a security sensitive thing, you don't want to compare two different encoding and have it accidentally fail. Strictly speaking you can only do a constant time comparison on bytes, the fact it accepts unicode at all (even on Python 3.x) is a convenience feature.

That's also a security sensitive thing, you don't want to compare two different encoding and have it accidentally fail. Strictly speaking you can only do a constant time comparison on bytes, the fact it accepts unicode at all (even on Python 3.x) is a convenience feature.

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2014-05-31 15:14:57	dstufft	set	recipients: + dstufft, ncoghlan, janssen, pitrou, giampaolo.rodola, christian.heimes, benjamin.peterson, smurfix, alex, python-dev
2014-05-31 15:14:57	dstufft	set	messageid: <1401549297.56.0.158750757671.issue21306@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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